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by keernan 8mo ago
One of the most impactful books I ever read was Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. Its core thesis was: Every era doubled the amount of technological change of the prior era in one half the time. At the time he wrote the book in 1970, he wa
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by keernan 8mo ago
ls -la
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The bigger issue than the illegal use of the subpoena power, is the purpose behind why they are gathering this personal data about Americans.
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by keernan 8mo ago
Nice. The government cannot collect and put the names of peaceful anti-government protestors into a government database; or show up at their homes when they violated no law; or the government issuing a subpoena to google for personal data a
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by keernan 8mo ago
My fault: the link I posted was cut off... full link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents...
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by keernan 8mo ago
Both members of the South African contingent of the Paypal Mafia
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by keernan 8mo ago
My post neither stated or implied the constitutional provisions. The easiest and clearest provision that has been violated is the Government gathering direct data to classify citizens based upon their expression of their First Amendment rig
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by keernan 8mo ago
>>To suggest that the Government doesn’t know what’s legal and what isn’t stretches credulity. I neither make nor imply any such suggestion. >>they’re going to ride as close to that line as possible This administration has alrea
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by keernan 8mo ago
Just off the top of my head all three examples I provided violate the First Amendment. It is Constitutionally prohibited for the government to track and gather information on citizens because they exercised their First Amendment rights.
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by keernan 8mo ago
As a trial attorney for more than 40 years, I'd say these are examples of egregious illegal surveillance of American citizens by the current government: 1. A retired US citizen emailed a DHS attorney urging mercy for an asylum seeker h
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by keernan 8mo ago
As a trial attorney for more than 40 years, I'd say these are examples of egregious illegal surveillance of American citizens by the current government: 1. A retired US citizen emailed a DHS attorney urging mercy for an asylum seeker h
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by keernan 8mo ago
Some further context: NYT: https://archive.ph/W5FwO ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants A memo from a Department of Homeland Security official reviewed by CNN and sent to agents dispatched to Minneap
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by keernan 8mo ago
AUR stock down 36% over the past 6 months; down 52% over last 12 months.
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by keernan 8mo ago
RMDs force me annually to liquidate stocks to pay US Government taxes. I'm not complaining; merely observing feasibility.
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by keernan 8mo ago
The Trump administration has demanded fealty to Trump, the man, not the office holder. Any Executive Branch employee who refuses to issue a subpoena that the Trump administration wants issued will lose their job in seconds. The subpoenas ar
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by keernan 8mo ago
remotely >>no one has ever remotely taken control of Tesla vehicles
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by keernan 8mo ago
>>But, he said, “I haven’t seen any plausible example of an L.L.M. coming up with a genuinely new idea and/or concept.”
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by keernan 8mo ago
A retired US citizen emailed a DHS attorney urging mercy for an asylum seeker he had read about. Five hours later he received an email from Google advising him the federal government had served Google with a subpoena demanding information a
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by keernan 9mo ago
>but we're mostly just trying to optimize for interesting discussions Thanks for taking the time to respond - and I certainly agree with the above. It's what makes HN pretty unique.
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by keernan 9mo ago
>>When we see accounts doing that, we usually take away their flagging rights. I have observed that any post that is negative about Musk gets flagged. Almost 100% of the time. In that regard, it has certainly occurred to me that someo
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by keernan 9mo ago
>>The Supreme Court Please explain how the Supreme Court has any power to stop a President surrounded by heads of the FBI, Homeland Security - all of whom have sworn allegiance to the Man ( Trump ) and not to the Office? As a trial at
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by keernan 9mo ago
Go back to asking people for help deciphering the Bash Manual
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by keernan 9mo ago
1. Has there ever been a society - regardless of political type - in which the 'power elite' did not define the rules of society to their benefit and to the detriment of the non-elite? 2. As for the US Constitution: (a) It's
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by keernan 9mo ago
As an American, I've never been more proud of Canada.
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Being fingerprinted is required to obtain a law license.
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by keernan 9mo ago
There is more than one path to the crisis. The more likely one is when Trump tells SCOTUS he is not bound by their decisions. And when the Senate fails to convict upon the ensuing impeachment, where is democracy? Edit: Tge == The
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by keernan 9mo ago
The individual participants in government demonstrate every day that they do nothing in response to Trump's literally daily illegal actions. When Trump tells SCOTUS to 'get lost' or when he cancels elections or when he declar
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by keernan 9mo ago
Isn't language also dependent upon unique human physical features enabling sophisticated sound combinations i.e. speech?
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by keernan 9mo ago
>>These examples are complete, and suitable for copying directly into new cargo projects. They are tested and guaranteed to work. ...guaranteed to work... seems to contradict - and thereby invalidate - waivers of liability contained w
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by keernan 9mo ago
Many of the comments lay the blame for the threat to democracy at the feet of SCOTUS and Congress for failing to act in a time of crisis to strangle the constitutional excesses of the Trump administration. I see it much differently. I see a

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